Remedy Explains Why Quantum Break is Exclusive to Xbox One

Quantum Break was first shown at the Xbox One reveal event on May 21st and we have some new information on the game. It’s said to be the “ultimate Remedy experience”, and will borrow the best elements from Alan Wake and Max Payne games.

You guessed it right, it will feature interactive storytelling from Alan Wake and cinematic combat and shooting mechanics from Max Payne.

It is also exclusive to Xbox One, and Remedy have mentioned that it would have been impossible to create a game like this without Microsoft’s help.

“This is clearly a strategic move for them as well as us. This is something – we have crazy ideas – but we need to fall back and let the full force of a company like Microsoft see it through,” Matias Myllyrinne, CEO of Remedy, told GI International in an interview.

“There’s no way on God’s green Earth that we would take on a venture like this on our own. We might have the appetite but there’s no way we could.

“For us, our interests are nicely aligned. We serve a strategic purpose for them in delivering unique content for their platform with a unique twist. And for us that allows us follow the creative passion that the team needs to fulfil through a project like this.”

@GribbleGrunger: Why have you copied both my sig and my ‘doctored’ sig picture? And why are you posting on several sites like this? I’m a Sony fan and always have been, so why are your posts so opposite to my preferences? You are trolling these sites to try and discredit me on other sites. Carry on if you wish but you will be reported.

GribbleGrunger

@GribbleGrunger: Who the hell are you? Who do you think you are, another insecure “Sony god”? LOL

GribbleGrunger

Just someone who is slightly more intelligent than you, sir, and doesn’t feel it necessary to take something so seriously that I copy a user and try to discredit them. Now grow the hell up.

GribbleGrunger

Wrong son, the guy you’re talking to is way more intelligent, not slightly. Try to copy harder or be gone in hell, you’re nothing.

GribbleGrunger

Do you think that people can’t search for post history using google or search my post history on N4G? Are you THAT stupid?

GribbleGrunger

Whoa thanks for confirming that GribbleGrunger himself is THAT stupid. Congrats for being an N4G idiot, son. Try again. Have Sony proud of you when you die.

GribbleGrunger

‘Have Sony proud of you when you die’?

LOL. Very mature, son

dirkradke

And at this point why would argue with yourself 5 times? In addition why are you calling yourself a Sony male prostitute?

Old_Prodigy

They’re different, look at the profiles. One has posted 11 comments, and the other has posted 6.

Homoneedsdeath

He’s pretty much right though, have fun following them off the cliff like the little lemming that you are.

Axe99

Seriously, this kind of trolling is really, really lame. Whatever you might think of someone else, however they may have behaved (noting I have no issues with the real GGs behaviour), behaving in this way says far more about you than the actual GG, and what it says doesn’t reflect well.

Edit: Apologies if I’ve posted this in response to the wrong GG – ie, this is supposed to be in response to the troll GG, not the original one ;).

dirkradke

Wait … didn’t you just respond to yourself?

GribbleGrunger

Who knew? Can we have mature conversation, son? I don’t want to look like an idiot here. I’m dealing with my alter ego, so please bear with me NSA.

Gamechup

Alright, this is a bit weird.

adamandkate

you know what is weird, cider made out of pears. WEIRD!

GribbleGrunger

Yeah it’s weird indeed, i was baited and caught off guard. LOL

Here is my N4G account, see how popular i am for being a faithful Sony boy :

Yeah it’s weird indeed, i was baited and caught off guard. LOL what a loser.

Gekko36

Thats called perry, not cider :D

http://www.showtimeforfree.com/ miDnIghtEr20C

This is such a crazy SDF conundrum!

Felipe Teixeira

Wouldn’t that be quite obvious for most 3rd party exclusive games??? They are exclusive because where paid for???

Will

They should have clarified by saying “This wouldn’t have been possible without a publisher” without necessarily insinuating Microsoft was the only company who could see it through.

dirkradke

Why wouldn’t they emphasize a relationship with Microsoft? How could that possibly hurt them since they have a good reputation as a developer?

Will

I didn’t imply they were hurting themselves by doing it, but rather it’s a misleading statement. To most people (without the context of reading into it) will assume he meant due to some advantage Xbone has over other competing consoles.

dirkradke

It’s exclusive because a large publisher like Microsoft has a console and they want the game developed for it not because that console has anything specific that would allow the game to be produced for that console alone and nobody else. If you actually read the whole article it is not misleading and makes no implications about X-Box One only that a large company like Microsoft could make it happen. I took this to mean Sony could make it happen as well, but Remedy chose Microsoft.

Will

I respect what you’re saying, but you’re not understanding me. I’m not saying this article is misleading. I’m saying how Matias Myllyrinne positioned his initial comment about it not being possible to create in any other way, until it was further ellaborated.

Darrius

Right, it’s exclusive because Microsoft paid them.

zakcole

Sony have never paid for exclusives? Devs pitch there game to studios looking for somebody to fund them. If Microsoft funded them what the hell is wrong with that? Sony could have funded them too but obviously passed or didn’t want it as much as Microsoft. Maybe they thought they had better to offer already. Maybe they thought it would bomb.

If it does do well though, as often is the case in these situations, Sony will be kicking themselves.

Guest

Hahaha, yeah MS has the money, just look at their new quarterly report tomorrow, unlike poor pauper $0ny that you choose to support and follow off the cliff to their doom. GFY!

brianc6234

Here they go again. Overhyping their dumb game. Isn’t this the same kind of crap they said about Alan Wake? That game ended up nothing like they bragged it would be.

Dakan45

Clap clap clap.

zakcole

IGN gave it a 9? Looks like it would have been above 9 but they’re rating system didn’t have .x before. 83% on Metacritic 8.5 on Gamespot 86 on PC gamer.

So? Hmmm…

dirkradke

Why are people so upset by this when a developer goes to a company like Microsoft and tells them if you want this game to be good we need money. Microsoft tells them make it exclusive and we will give it to you. Do people think Sony wouldn’t do this if they felt it was in there interest? Sony has no more holiness than any other large multinational corporation. They have what 30 exclusives for PS4 already? Are people simply upset because Sony was asleep or wasn’t asked? Every publisher does the same thing. As for people who say Alan Wake was a bad game or over hyped it was Time’s 1st of the Top 10 in 2010 and sold over 2 million copies at that point. It was a quite successful game. I could see why Microsoft would want to continue or renew the relationship.

Guest

Because the N4Gtard $0ny PauperStation fanbase are the ultimate hypocrites. Poor in the wallet and even poorer in their minds.

growabrain

please, the amount of stupid you are producing is killing the ozone.

Pedro Oliveira

I agree…

E71

You totally forgot the other platform out of the three major players: PC (Windows).
Windows is a Microsoft product, a flagship one at that and the main reason for their existence so please tell me why, when they pay for exclusivity, they shouldn’t include both their children? Windows and XBOX?
…And please don’t say piracy, because if a game’s good, people do buy it. It’s why Steam’s thriving.

Dirkster_Dude

I didn’t forget anything. The article was about Quantum Break on XB1.

Dakan45

Translation

“The game is exlusive because Alan wake flopped and we didnt learn our lesson, so we let ms give us money and hype so we can it can also flop and get screwed up once again”

Homoneedsdeath

Downvote translation: MAYBE YOU SHOULD STFU!

Dakan45

If i get many downvotes by moronoic xbox tards, then i am saying the obvious right thing.

furious1235

Or maybe you should stop being an illiterate fanboy!!!!

Dakan45

Or maybe you should stop being guilable retards

Guest

Probably because you are a multisite $0ny spambot and deserve it.

GribbleGrunger

If somebody else used my nick and avatar to say something negative in all Sony articles then i (the Real GG) would not get my payrolls from Sony. Simple as that. My job is to make sure the PlayStation marketing support alive in comment sections, especially on the N4G site. I fear my marketing efforts to be discredited or failed if it found me, even though i have multiple accounts, so please.

Homoneedsdeath

LOL! Proves Guest his point to the T.

http://www.facebook.com/LBoogieSkells Arroz Con Pollo

Translation

Microsoft gave us a lot of money to play with.

Axe99

Nothing wrong with this at all – Microsoft and Remedy have a partnership to put together what will (hopefully, and based on past form) be a great game. Nothing to get worked up about here folks. There are great exclusives on pretty much any platform, if XB1 isn’t your flavour of console, you’ll have plenty of other good stuff on PC/PS4/Wii U :)

E71

It’s funny how you mention Microsoft in a way as if Xbox is the only Microsoft platform.
You’re forgetting PC (technically, Windows) is also a Microsoft platform, albeit a software one. When Microsoft turns their back on PC like that, you can understand all the hate towards them.

Axe99

Aye, although personally I preferred PC gaming before Microsoft got a strangehold on the platform. PC wasn’t always just windows, and you got a lot more bang for your hardware back when that was the case.

jazzy1

I don’t understand. The Sony fags already has quite a few exclusives but when an xbox exlusive is announced, they flip out.

Guest

I don’t understand. The Sony fags already has quite a few exclusives but when an xbox exclusive is announced, they flip out.

Asturias_Knytt

Alan Wake was terrible….jesus. That can’t be good.

Robert Gittings

I call bullshit on this… the game could easily come to PS4 and the help that they are on about from M$ is most likely money that forces them to make is M$ exclusive… Microsoft do like paying rights for games to make them exclusive.

gigi kent

so they are new microsoft ass-kisser. It’s good to know…

Mucksony

also lying about exclusivity since very1 knows its coming to pc too. ms pulled the same bs at 2013 e3 with dead rising 3

JKOUW

This, for me, would be a game I’d buy the console for. However I’ll be hopeful that it will at some point be ported to PC. Not because I don’t like consoles, just simply because it’s cheaper for me to buy a $60 game than it is to buy a $400 console AND a $60 game lol.

azizulnur

is ok Exclusive lazy do rant comment if i do things still don”t not change

princevinny15

:( if its from Microsoft help you can make your game why not bring it to PC as well windows pc is Microsoft why is it just a xboxone console exclusive :( pc users should have the chance to play it as well because we support Microsoft just as much as any xboxone users

http://smoke.livejournal.com/ Smoke Tetsu

At least because they where paid is a better more honest reason than “Some games are best played from a comfy couch” PC games are also capable of being played this way! Especially after the advent of bigger screened computer monitors, projectors, HDMI and various controller options.

I played Alan Wake for PC from my comfy couch. :P

E71

I’d love to find the douche bag at Microsoft whose responsible for all these exclusives and punch him/her in the face.

Another year, another instance of Microsoft betraying Windows customers with exclusivity deals. They behave like we’re not their customers.

Smokey

Bull.Shit.

There’s no way on God’s green Earth that this Game wouldn’t be an objectively far superior experience on PC.

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